Hieromonk
Saint martyr Danakt (in the world, Demetian Iannuariyevich Kalashnikov) was born on January 10, 1882, in the village of Samgorodok, Cherkassy district of the Kiev province, into a peasant family. He was educated first at home and then in a church-parochial school. At the age of 21, he entered the brotherhood of the Athos monastery, where he was tonsured into the mantle with the name Danakt. From 1914, he was engaged in various obediences at the Athos representation in Moscow.
In 1923, he began to labor in the Pokrovsky Monastery in Moscow, and in 1929 he was ordained to the rank of hierodeacon. In early 1929, the looting of the cemetery of the Pokrovsky Monastery began, and hierodeacon Danakt attempted to stop the robbers, but unsuccessfully. On August 14, after the service, he was detained on charges of anti-Soviet agitation. As a result of the investigation, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a concentration camp, later replaced by exile to the Komi region.
Returning from exile in 1933, he settled in Vladimir and was ordained to the rank of hieromonk. In 1935, he was sent to serve in the Michael-Archangel Church of the village of Arkhangelskoye. In November 1937, the chairman of the village council composed a characteristic on hieromonk Danakt, noting his active religious activity and agitation for faith in God. On November 28, 1937, he was arrested and soon shot on December 15, 1937, buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
